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mem_somerville
2025-06-25

The Guild of Irish Lacemakers is kicking butt on selling a lace kit with educational videos so people can learn the basics. That's how I learned.

youtube.com/@GOILIreland

mem_somerville
2025-06-25

Speaking of lace and beads, here's my . I used techniques to make this. I'm going to trim the bottom with some needle lace and beads to give it a little weight.

They haven't banned veils at protests yet. I saw people defeating face recognition software with lace in other countries.

An embroidery hoop holds a piece of black netting. The hoop is about a 10 inch diameter. You can fit your face in it, for example. Embroidered on the center of the veil is the phrase "We the People" copied from the original script of the US Constitution. It looks a little scratchy like the original print copies because of the way the embroidery went. The letters are outlined in a slightly heavier thread.
mem_somerville
2024-10-30

The beginner kit information is here: limericklace.ie/2024/07/16/lau

I love how much the Irish are cherishing and celebrating their lace traditions. They are really doing a great job at grants and outreach.

mem_somerville
2024-10-30

: the kit is underway.

I like it--it's very engrossing. But it's also very unforgiving. Every wrong stitch and every misaligned thread is visible.

The Limerick Lace beginner piece. It has heavier outline threads that make shapes on a hexagonal mesh netting. This motif is a small flower with 5 petals and some stamens, a half shaded leaf, and a small curly vine tail to one side. It is bordered by a wavy outline that I am beginning to fill in at the top, and my white thread and needle can just be seen at 12 o'clock. You can just see the edges of the covered embroidery hoop that holds the netting in place. Photo of the kit and the tools and the little pattern and stitch book that accompanies the kit in a pink bag from the Limerick Lace folks. My work in progress hoop is in the lower right quadrant. Pattern book to the left. Pink bag the kit comes in upper right. Some pins in a red felt holder in the center. They include the pins. A tiny pair of "cricket" scissors is above to the left a bit.
mem_somerville
2024-10-26

And of course as soon as she realized there was a project underway, my supervisor came over to...um...whatever.

On the same worktable as the previous photo, a small calico has plopped herself down right in the damn center of everything to make work very difficult. She is doing the deliberate "I'm ignoring you" face that is partially turned to you but eyes closed. My left hand holds the wooden embroidery hoop I'm trying to cover.
mem_somerville
2024-10-25

After I cancelled my subscription, I decided to do something constructive. I picked up the project I've been meaning to start.

I bought a kit from the Irish lace group. Step 1 is to cover the hoops with fabric. Much stabbing of cloth. Very therapeutic.

This is the kit: limericklace.ie/2024/07/16/lau

My work table has my new project laid out. It consists of an embroidery wooden hoop that you have to cover with fabric (both inner and outer rings). So there's that, there's needles and pins, a spool of thread, my sewing clips, a pencil nearby and a book in the back called "Stitch Encyclopedia". Towards the foreground is my hussif, or sewing kit, made from scrap fabrics and trimmed with my own lace. To the back of the image is my photograph of Cloris Leachman as Madame Defarge in History of the World Part 1. It's black and white and she sits on a run down street in well worn garments, with a surly look on her face and a project in her lap.

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